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by hnhg 3y ago
There is another under-addressed aspect, which is that mainstream left and right parties are lobbied (i.e. bribed) by the same groups. Coupled with a media that is also aligned with it all, and it is a perfect recipe for outsiders like the
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by hnhg 3y ago
There is perhaps a survivorship bias in those studies, since divorce is so easy now, only people who are happy in marriage remain. i.e. reported happiness in marriage increases while everyone unhappy simply divorces and so the numbers would
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by hnhg 3y ago
Have you seen the price and dearth of family housing these days? Why would you would think that propaganda is the main cause when just the economics are prohibitive?
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by hnhg 3y ago
Decades of policies against their own citizens also includes increasing the cost of living and leaving a lot of people behind. This was happening before covid. Berlin is a case in point. e.g. the story of someone's friend, a single mum
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by hnhg 3y ago
You might want to read up about the Nazi party. That should give you a good enough answer.
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by hnhg 3y ago
I would rather be the subject of behavioral advertising and keep privately encrypted comms than the other way around, but apparently the EU has other ideas.
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by hnhg 3y ago
Thanks for the kind words. I actually agree a lot with what you say, and would just add my personal experiences, and be interested in learning more, but I don't think you established the tone for further conversation here.
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by hnhg 3y ago
I would be surprised if many Brits know of ARM as a British success story. Ditto for Raspberry Pi or Deepmind. These things are just not celebrated, it seems.
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by hnhg 3y ago
I cannot prove it, and this is entirely anecdotal, but my friends and I have observed it first-hand from VC dealings and friends in the right UK circles. Inherited generational wealth and class in my experience powers UK investment, particu
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by hnhg 3y ago
Only if more fuel is created than is used, which would seem to be a waste of energy. On the whole, it should be a balanced loop and should net off.
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by hnhg 3y ago
Another side effect: the wealth will be concentrated in rich tax-avoiding corporations and elites, meaning that the tax burden for society will fall even harder on the remaining middle and working classes, who will have to pay for the upkee
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by hnhg 3y ago
That question is so loaded because it begs for a loss of knowledge about Airbnb, and that’s not something I would not want to lose. However, do I think Airbnb is a net gain for humans? No. But I wouldn’t “uninvent it”, in the literal sense.
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by hnhg 3y ago
That is true, thanks for reminding me. I am a bit discouraged by the response to climate change, which I think will end disastrously. I would be overjoyed to be proved wrong on all counts.
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by hnhg 3y ago
The amounts of microplastics are ever-increasing and there could be a serious threat from their degradation into nanoplastics: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemistry/nanoplastics
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by hnhg 3y ago
TBF it probably does not matter what you do as an individual. All the news indicates it could be a civilization-scale problem. Collectively, the human race would need to deal with it together. I believe this has never happened before.
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by hnhg 3y ago
Thanks. How would this differ from running Llama2 through the Huggingface-Langchain integration? I haven't tried it but it looked like the way to go until you shared this.
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by hnhg 3y ago
Thanks. For me, I just do not think humanity in its current state could handle the the massive amount of migration that could potentially happen without ugly political upheavals and conflict. I guess we will find out.
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by hnhg 3y ago
Can you provide the citations for that? Migration forecasts are absolutely enormous [1] and 10 million seems very low in terms of relation to the numbers and how humanity will react to it all. Just think of the current reactions to migratio
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by hnhg 3y ago
It is also because it will result in incredible levels of migration and competition for resources in the short term (ie wars). Yes, humanity will survive but it might make global shocks like the pandemic seem very tepid by comparison.
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by hnhg 3y ago
Don't forget the Daily Mail, the Daily Express and the Daily Star. Then, take a look at how the composition of the BBC's board changed starting under Cameron's administration. Until recently, their Chairman was Richard Sharp,
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by hnhg 3y ago
The British media, The Times included, have had a big part to play in all of this. For them to behave with their usual convenient amnesia of their past reporting is a bit too much for me, at least, to accept. It just isn't fit for purp
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by hnhg 3y ago
I watched an interview with David Yelland, former editor of the Sun, recently where he said that the news media in the UK is more or less run by the same minority class of people who typically work as spads[1]. That would follow your point
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by hnhg 3y ago
Tree planting on this scale is often just a cynical ploy to sell carbon offsets, in order to make a lot of money.
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Because technology advances quickly, but human nature does not.
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by hnhg 3y ago
I would suggest that perhaps you are not looking for news, rather entertaining, thoughtful writing. Maybe something like Lapham's quarterly, and other literary focused publications would scratch that itch? I have realised how much nons
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by hnhg 3y ago
Regarding a theme song, I don't think it is official, but Kraftwerk's effort is quite well known: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt3p-F2x7rY
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by hnhg 3y ago
It was also written about complex cultural issues in ethnic minorities by people who weren't from those minorities. I am a big fan of Morris, but there is something inauthentic (edit: I originally wrote "slightly patronising"
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by hnhg 3y ago
Can you say specifically what goes too far? I don't find it onerous or unreasonable at all, but my business model doesn't improve by violating it either.
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by hnhg 3y ago
I would second this. Their app/website helped wean me off the emotional manipulation by news media I didn't even know I was addicted to. I would recommend people try it out.
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Yeah, and in total, he says it is about having all of (mentality * training * mental agility) to deal with such a situation. Given the low entrance requirements for joining a typical police force, I doubt many officers out there have all of

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